Tillage Act 1685

V. Same Powers to the Lord Mayor, &c. and Justices of Peace of and in London.

The aforesaid Oaths to be made by Persons not interested being Housekeepers.

Provided alwayes, and bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That all that by vertue of this Act is to be done by the Justices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions in their severall Countyes shall be done and performed in like manner in the City of London in the Months of October and Aprill yearely by the Maior Aldermen and Justices of Peace there and that the persons makeing such Oaths shall be noe Corne-Chandler Mealman Factor Merchant or other person [X1 interested] in such Corne soe to be Imported but shall be some Substantiall House-keepers. liveing in Midlesex or Surrey qualified as aforesaid.

ITEM quedam Petitiones privatas personas concernentes in se formam Actus continentes exhibite fuerunt p[re]dicto Domino Regi in Parliamento predicto quorum tituli subscribuntur videlicet.

An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint Anne within the Liberty of Westminster to raise Money to build a Church to be the parish Church there.

An Act for repealing a Clause for dividing of Com[m]oms in an Act of Parlyament made in the fifteenth yeare of King Charles the Second entituled An Act for setleing the dreyning of the Great Levell of the Fenns called Bedford Levell.

An Act to enable James Lord Butler of Moore-Parke and Earle of Ossory in the Kingdome of Ireland to make a joynture to such Woman as he shall marry.

An Act for the naturalization of John Esselbron Otto Geertz David Becceler and others.

An Act for rebuilding of the Earle of Powis's House in Lincolns-Inne-Fields lately demolished by fire.

An Act for the conveyance of Fresh water through severall grounds unto the City of Rochester.

An Act for naturalizing Magdalen Pellasary and others.

An Act for the naturalizing of James Dufay Theodore Janssen and others.

An Act to enable Edward Meller Esquire to sell Lands for payment of debts.

An Act for erecting a new Parish to be called The Parish of Saint James within the Liberty of Westminster.

An Act for the repair of the Cathedrall Church of Bangor and for the maintenance of the Choire there and for the augmentation of the Revenue of the Bishoprick of Bangor and [X2 alsoe] for an augmentation of severall Vicarages within the Comportions of Landinum in the diocesse of Bangor aforesaid.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: interrested O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 Interlined on the Roll.